On 19th February, the Busan World Tournament saw a thrilling showdown. The Chinese Taipei Men’s Team suffered an onslaught in the group stage, with World Champion Chuang Chih-Yuan and hopeful Gao Cheng-Rui both losing miserably, while Lin Yun-Ru played bravely and got 2 points, but the match ended in a very dramatic way:
The Czech Polanski was unable to continue the match due to an injury, so it was automatically ruled in favour of the Chinese Taipei team – what a surprise that the match ended like this after playing for so long!
Chinese Taipei
Taipei has always been a strong team in the table tennis world, and the three core athletes who participated in the Chinese table tennis team this time are all very good, including Lin Yunru, a top 10 player who has beaten the Chinese table tennis team many times, veteran Chuang Chih-Yuan, who is a world champion, and hopeful Gao Cheng-Rui, who has improved a lot in recent years, and almost toppled Wang Chuchin in the Asian Championships last year.
Comparatively speaking, the level of the Czech team in Europe is still not ranked in the first-class ranks, according to reason is very difficult to threaten the Chinese Taipei team, I did not expect this time the situation is greatly out of the expectation of many fans.
The Match
After the match started, Gao Chengrui suffered a disastrous collapse in the first set. Facing Lubomir’s impact, he first lost a set by 5-11, then lost again by 7-11, and didn’t take the third set with the set point in hand, and then tangled with the other team all the way up to the point of 22-all, but finally lost by 22-24, and Chinese Taipei suffered a black opening.
Lin Yunru took the court in the second set and played against Polanski. The difference in strength between the two players was relatively large, and Lin quickly ended the battle with three consecutive victories of 11-2, 11-7, and 11-4 to bring the two sides back to the same starting line.
World Champion Zhuang Zhiyuan played a very frustrating game in the third set, losing 1-11 to Martinko and then 10-12 in the second set. Chong won the third set 11-4, but crashed out 7-11 in the fourth set. However, Lin Yunru won 11-9, 11-5, 11-5 to beat Lubomir, thus giving Gao Chengrui a chance to play again.
Just when everyone was looking forward to the deciding set, Czech Polanski was injured and couldn’t hold on, and the Czechs lost the whole match: I have to say, competitive sports are full of uncertainties, which is really surprising!
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